I have several scrappers that use Hover. If you're willing to slot it (Blessing of the Zephyrs on my DAs), it's quite effective though I would recommend some variation of Hover/Fly binds.
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I have a hover tank and hover brute right now, both low level. Both hover fast enough for it to be totally viable in combat, and one with just the default slot with a flight speed DO. I have the E key bound to swap back and forth between Hover and Fly, so I can move around the map quite fast, then go immediately back into Hover.
If you can stand being a floating dustball of doom, I'd go that route. If not, and you can afford the pools, no reason not to have both Combat Jumping and Hover. Combat Jumping is almost free for the endurance. I'd probably stick with the default slot in both, or maybe one extra in Hover for both flight speed and endurance, at least until the late game when slots become plentiful.
That said, I three-slotted my hover tank for flight speed immediately. I'm going for fun rather than numerically optimal on him.
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In response to the OP, Hover and Combat Jumping simultaneously is perfectly viable if you have room for both pools. And Hover does move quite fast now if you slot for speed.
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I think Hover and Fly received a speed boost in the latest patch so it's probably easier to move around now.
Be sure and take swift. Slot it for flight, but no extra slots.
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Completely viable. Very fun too! 
I asked about this 2 weeks ago in my Pixie Warrior thread.
So far Lace Wing is level 39, and only drops hover to summon an Oro Portal or to use Rest. I went with Kat/SR so that I'd have the added flight speed increase from Quickness.
It is totally viable to hover during a fight and a ton of fun. Nothing like using a cone while floating over the baddies and hitting just about every mob in the group, even some standing behind you!
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Most of my Toons use hover.
It has a nice def bonus, takes Blessing of the Zephyrs, and with swift and some IOs, is quicker than sprint.
so yeah, very viable, very useful.
But more importantly than that, it looks pretty, real pretty.
Hover is the bomb now. I wish there was an emote you can use to hover with your arms folded like you do after you cast soul strom with a stalker or corr. (And they say heroes get all the good stuff)
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darnit, now I want to try out hover!
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Basically, I bind mousechord button (L mouse button + R Mousebutton) to Fly + Forward. I move into position via fly and switch to hover in the middle of my first attack chain. If spawns are bunched together, hovering from spawn to spawn is fairly quick. If I come to a hallway or long space with out spawns, mousechord to fly forward and search for my next set of victims.
Some primaries look realy cool in mid air combat, others I wasn't so thrilled about. DM, Spines, and Claws all look very cool. Dual Blades looks cool in mid-air but I found lineing up AoEs and Cones to be more difficult. I tried but did not like BS or MA in mid-air, purely for aesthetic reasons.
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Some primaries look realy cool in mid air combat, others I wasn't so thrilled about. DM, Spines, and Claws all look very cool. Dual Blades looks cool in mid-air but I found lineing up AoEs and Cones to be more difficult. I tried but did not like BS or MA in mid-air, purely for aesthetic reasons.
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Air sup and cremate ftw!! Anyone got a pic or a vid on it?
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Some primaries look realy cool in mid air combat, others I wasn't so thrilled about. DM, Spines, and Claws all look very cool. Dual Blades looks cool in mid-air but I found lineing up AoEs and Cones to be more difficult. I tried but did not like BS or MA in mid-air, purely for aesthetic reasons.
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Air sup and cremate ftw!! Anyone got a pic or a vid on it?
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Absolutely agree. 
I finally made a concept character. It's not original by any means, but I had to start somewhere. I created a half demon female who is always hovering (or flying).
She is FM/WP and the first time I saw the cremate animation I thought it was both hilarious and incredibly cute. Here's a link to a couple of pics that i took after seeing this post.
Cremate animation while Hovering
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Yup!! That's the one.
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I'm working on respeccing my level 42 Katana/Dark scrapper for several reasons. The most of which being that her build is getting old, like, pre-I10 old, and I desperately want Gambler's Cut over Sting (it looks so awesome).
Anyhow, I had a question. With the changes to hover speed is it worth taking and slotting on a scrapper? My one concern is opening myself up to the glaring immob hole I've patched with CJ (I have Cloak, but I don't like running it constantly, I put work into my costumes, damnit all).
So, right. Is Hover worth having now? Is it worth running WITH Combat Jumping or should I suck it up and become the floating dustball of doom at all times? Also how many slots should go to it? One or two for speed, one for endurance... is the defense at all worth enhancing, I usually do on CJ, but that's because it doesn't need anything else in there...
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